From: Brandon C. <ca...@nr...> - 2008-02-22 23:28:30
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Glenn Randers-Pehrson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 6, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Brandon Casey <ca...@nr...> wrote: > >> I have been thinking about how to populate the repository, and here is an >> example script for doing so from the libpng tar files. > > I spent some time with this script today but didn't have much luck. I > wonder what > platform it is for. sorry, I assumed you'd have linux. > The tar that I have on SunOs 5.10 does not recognize the > "tar -z" format or the embedded commandline format. "tar --version" does not > work either so I'm not quite sure what version it is. I changed all > "$(cmd)" to "`cmd`" Isn't there a /usr/xpg4/bin that has more recent utilities? The '-z' option to tar causes it to gunzip the tar file. '-j' does the same for bzip2. The same could have been done with gunzip -c or bunzip2 -c which I would have used if I'd have known you were on SunOS. The '--strip-path' tar option could also be a gnu-ism. I also used the -R (for recursive) option to chmod and a capital 'X' for the permission setting to add execute permission only if some field already has execute permission. These too may be gnu-isms. > and revised the script to use *.tar files instead of *.tar.gz|tgz|bz2 > and manually > gunzipped my *.tar.gz files. Still not quite working, though, but > haven't give up yet > either. I see your other message which says you have things working now. -brandon |